O vocalista usa aliança

The characters in National songs have real jobs, have uninteresting sex, get drunk, and lie to one another. They do so during the regular course of a workaday week, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The National (...) [are] chiefly interested in the complications of being a stable person expected to own certain things and dress certain ways.

[da crítica ao álbum High Violet na Pitchfork]